Episodes
April 2023 brought some great new offerings to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: Project integration in Viva Goals, Viva Connections: Mobile SharePoint site navigation, improved Graph Connector content results, eDiscovery document version shared, Microsoft Lists: Applied filters, Microsoft Loop: .fluid > .loop, new files experience in Teams, Create pages and news in the SharePoint app bar, and more. We chat with Ben Truelove, Principal Designer at Microsoft focused on Microsoft Lists about...
Published 05/01/23
March 2023 brought both new updates and big announcements. In this episode, we cover: File web part now: “File and Media”, Viva Connections on iPad, Microsoft Edge + Adobe Acrobat PDF Engine, Microsoft Lists + Approvals app in Teams, OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite, Suggested files in 1:1 chat, Microsoft Word: Send to Kindle, and more. Plus, we have two guests: 1) Matt McKenzie, Director of Microsoft 365 product marketing, shares insights about the upcoming Microsoft 365 Conference in Vegas...
Published 04/03/23
Viva Topics in Engage doubles the impact and access of your knowledge at your fingertips - and how you pay it forward to others. On today's episode, we hear from Raj Jain (Principal product manager at Microsoft) about all things topical about Viva Topics, specifically - the role of Viva Topics within your Viva Engage community discussions, questions, and announcements posts. The real value gives you a built-in knowledge management system that balances and refines the length of your internal...
Published 03/20/23
In this episode, we cover: Yammer > Engage rebrand, Viva Topics in Viva Engage, Stream Playlists, SharePoint Advanced Management, updated OneDrive Home and Shared, external file requests for SharePoint document libraries, export Microsoft Lists as datasets for Power BI, update to rules email notifications, and more. Plus, we talk with Sesha Mani, Principal group product manager on the SharePoint team focused on admin, security, and compliance. Sesha highlights the value of new SharePoint...
Published 03/01/23
You have questions. Viva has answers. On today's episode, we chat with Michael Holste and Steve Nguyen, Microsoft employees who focus on Microsoft Viva Engage and all the goodness it brings - with many exciting announcements disclosed today. You'll learn about things geared toward leadership communications, ways to host and run internal AMAs, and the general notion of getting answers to your questions when using Microsoft Viva, what is referred to as Answers in Viva. Plus, a little future...
Published 02/13/23
It's a templates world, from start to finish - if you want to finish on time. In this episode, we first chat with Cathy Dew, senior product manager on the SharePoint team, about the value and design of SharePoint templates, Microsoft 365 templates, Lists templates, and more. We then connect with two of our partners from Pointwork in Copenhagen, Denmark: Peter Larsen, their CTO, and Lars Kristensen, a Principal consultant; we drill down into the real-world use and adoption of templates +...
Published 02/07/23
In this episode, you’ll hear about all the new features and updates: Microsoft Feed, Planner integration with Viva Goals, extracting PDFs in OneDrive for Android, Microsoft Lists: Calendar week layout, Microsoft Teams @Everyone, Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines, Stream (Classic) sets to retire: February 15, 2024, and more. Plus, we talk with Bill Bär from the 'content AI' team focused on Search, Syntex, and a whole lot of AI. Bill shares insights...
Published 01/31/23
We chat with Jeff Teper to dig into what he calls "Fast Friday" - his use of technology to record his thoughts about what he's up to each week - where he spends time, anecdotes on internal and external meetings, and things he's working on - big and small. Fast Fridays are about capturing thoughts, putting them together, and then getting them out there - and that it's OK to be scrappy, consistent, and engaged versus over-polished and less available. For Jeff, it's all about transparency,...
Published 01/10/23
Our team spent most of December 2022 refining the cloud, improving it for your return to work – whenever that may be. In this episode, you’ll find details about a load of great new offerings: Microsoft Syntex Pay-as-you-go (Preview), search video transcript for Stream (on SharePoint), SharePoint Apps: Add to teams when enabling an app, OneDrive: Sensitivity labels appear on the sharing dialog, OneDrive sync reports (GA), SharePoint sites search in usage analytics, Microsoft Teams Premium...
Published 12/29/22
Sink your ears into clip highlights from each of the four Microsoft keynotes from the European SharePoint Conference 2022 (ESPC22 | Copenhagen, Denmark). You'll hear from Jeff Teper covering the approach Microsoft takes in making Microsoft 365 the best productivity offering, from Karuana Gatimu sharing insights about the metaverse in Teams, Scott Hanselman about how many keystrokes you have left, Vesa Juvonen on the continuum of opportunity for developers -- no-to-low-to-pro code. And last, a...
Published 12/20/22
Gobble, gobble - time to gobble up all the updates that landed for SharePoint and related tech on the month of November 2022 - a load of great new offerings: Briefing email enhancements, a new praise compose experience, a new Viva admin experience, SharePoint tenant URL rename (GA), three new SharePoint site templates, updated management for site information, sign language via in Microsoft Teams, Editor using Context IQ in Word, and more. We also pulled audio from Cathy Dew, Senior product...
Published 11/30/22
On this episode, we hear from Gaia Carini and Katy Erlandson from the OneDrive engineering team. We dig into OneDrive to distinguish the value between the "Add to OneDrive" feature and general sync of team site document libraries - sometimes referred to as "Shared libraries". You’ll hear more about what each capability does, the path forward by design to make it easy for you, plus guidance for today and going forward. The whole of this episode spawned from a Twitter thread request, and we...
Published 11/22/22
To the echoes of ghostly gasps and looming, deadly fog - the spirit of Halloween cast an eerie shadow this past month. No need to fear. October 2022 brought some great new, welcome offerings: Viva Engage GA, Viva Insights: Focus mode in Teams, Stream (on SharePoint) GA, Excel Live in Teams, OneDrive: Folder backup for macOS, conditional access improvement for Lists for Android, Office app becoming Microsoft 365 app, and more. You’ll hear more about Viva Engage and Yammer Storylines that both...
Published 11/02/22
Time to turn the crank on your Syntex knowledge - now an elevated brand and loads of new innovation. Every workday, Microsoft customers add 1.6 billion documents to Microsoft 365. That content is essential to your organization -- carrying knowledge, decisions, and transactions that are vital to the flow of work. Microsoft Syntex, announced this week at Microsoft Ignite 2022, brings the power of content management and AI together to transform the way we work. We chat with Ian Story, Principal...
Published 10/12/22
September brought some great new offerings: Cultural site template for Hispanic Heritage Month, Manage site access based on sensitivity label, Viva Learning cards for the Viva Connections Dashboard, New 'Activity' column in OneDrive, Granular Policies for OneDrive: Request Files, Quick Access to SharePoint document libraries in Office backstage, Schedule send for Teams chat, Video clips in Teams chat (Preview), new Stream mobile app (beta) - iOS and Android, improved Adobe PDF experience in...
Published 10/05/22
Chris and Mark chat with April Dunnam, Principal cloud advocate on Power Platform Developer Advocacy Team at Microsoft. April is also a Power Platform MVP alumni, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and previously a SharePoint developer out of Tulsa, OK. This episode brings the live Intrazone breakout session from 365 EduCon - Dallas right into your Intrazone ears. We asked April to share insights and best practices for user experiences designed to build 'sticky apps', plus her take on new Power...
Published 09/28/22
August 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Viva Goals GA, Viva Engage GA, Viva Insights updates, Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview for iOS (beta), new SharePoint team site templates, new web parts and site theme, co-authoring encrypted documents on mobile, new OneDrive home experience, To Do in Outlook for Windows, and more. We also hear from Ankur Madan and Sahil Baid discuss progress in the mobile Lists space, namely bringing access to...
Published 09/07/22
On this episode, Chris and Mark chat with Sean Emam (Principal GPM for all datacenters) and Jon Farmer (our lead datacenter PMM). We highlight news about the recent opening of a new datacenter in Qatar, and the value of operating Microsoft datacenters at scale across various product groups, partners, and ultimately out to customer. You’ll hear more about the history and design behind our go local efforts, choosing locations, and the focus on sustainability across all datacenters to enable...
Published 08/31/22
It's OneDrive's 15th birthday, and all the presents are for you. On this episode, Ankita Kirti and Mark Kashman chat with Arwa Tyebkhan (Principal GPM | OneDrive) and Steven Bailey (CVP OneDrive and SharePoint engineering) to celebrate both OneDrive’s 15th lap around the sun AND to hear more about the new OneDrive Home experience. We first go into the way-back machine to learn about the evolution from Windows Live Mesh, Grove.exe and SharePoint Workspaces, into SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro, and...
Published 08/09/22
July 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Record a new video from Stream start page, Video collections page, One-time passcodes from [email protected], AAD memberOf “Nested” Groups, Power Automate flows in Lists templates, Microsoft Lists: Calendar view conditional formatting, Review mode for Word documents, news from Microsoft Inspire 2022, and more. We also hear from Kristina Hotz from the Microsoft Identity and network...
Published 08/02/22
Go behind the scenes with the solution that aligns teams to your organization’s strategic priorities, driving results and a thriving business. On this episode, Chris and Mark chat with Lucy Hitz (product marketing for Viva Goals) and Kevin Shively (Vice President of marketing for Viva Goals) to celebrate the general availability (GA) for Viva Goals (8/1/2022). We chat about important aspects of product design and development from the acquisition of Ally.io into its evolution as "Viva Goals"...
Published 08/01/22
On this episode, Chris and Mark chat with Todd Klindt (Consultant and Microsoft MVP, Sympraxis Consulting) about the early days of PowerShell, IT Pro benefits over the years, and what it all means for SharePoint, Exchange, Teams and Azure in the cloud. You’ll hear more about how and why PowerShell evolved (“Monad”) – why it's CLI & GUI - not CLI vs GUI, recent extensions for admins to automate server and service management – like the concise and aptly named SharePoint Online Management...
Published 07/21/22
June 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Pride Month | LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group site template, Viva Topics in Teams chat, inline playback of videos in Hero web part, updated site logo management, multilingual UI when editing team sites, rename Add to OneDrive Shortcuts, OneDrive: Pin and unpin shared libraries, Planner cards in team site activity feed, SPS'2013 Workflows migration assessment tool, Teams chat with self, and...
Published 06/30/22
Let the knowledge transfer begin! And never stop - with confidence to go, go, go. On this episode, Chris and Mark chat with Sue Hanley (Microsoft MVP, information architect) and her customer, Carol Zollinger (IT Support Technician | Christian Children's Home of Ohio), about identifying problems, drilling in with questions, concerns, etc. to ultimately decide what tech will work, and most importantly: How the tech will be implemented by people, for people. Have a seat on the couch and listen...
Published 06/16/22
May 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Site template history panel, Microsoft Stream, Section templates, Loop components in Outlook mail (Preview), Admin PowerShell control for Loop components, Inspiration Library in Microsoft Viva Insights, Microsoft Lists, Build 2022 news, and more. We also talk with Marc Mroz from the Microsoft Stream team about the progress and value of "Stream on SharePoint" and dig into the recent player...
Published 06/06/22